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poemtoday: The morning of the dying gigolo
I sleep in my girl's bed all day long
while she's out working. They think
I must be very good because she keeps
me: they should hear her crying
when I wake her up to go to work.
Alan Dugan
kelvmackenzie: More good news on MoTD is that Alan Shearer and Ian Wright have refused to appear without Lineker.. Since we pay them £400K a year for saying "good goal" and " he'll be disappointed with that" I'm delighted they are off my payroll.
BorisDralyuk: Alan Dugan builds himself a demotic monument that he claims will last as long as the Dewey Decimal System — a harmless fib about permanence of which even Zarathustra might approve. Notice the rhymed couplet at the end: 13 syllables each, answering the question “Why lie?”
themoneyghost: (Mood: Alan Dugan)
But when I work,
Oh I get paid!, the police are courteous,
and I can have a drink and breathe air.
I feel classy. I am where the arms are.
AmazingArtPix: It took 6 years, 4,200 hours and 720,000 photos for wildlife photographer Alan McFadyen to get this perfect shot. Kingfisher diving into the water...
FreakLimner: 1) W.S. Merwin - “Peasant”
tombogert: ALAN VELASCO IS A BAAAAAAAD MAN, PANENKA TO WIN IT
ve_II9I: • Who knows whether the sea heals or corrodes? what the sun burns up of it, the moon puts back.”
•Alan Dugan
FreakLimner: I’m more changed by individual works by various poets than bodies of work by a given poet.
But Alan Dugan’s “Love Song: I and Thou” guts me.
everyTitleCincy: "Over thirty years of poems from an American poet in the spirit of Alan Dugan and Nelson Algren's Chicago: City on the Make. "At times . . . I wanted to be a poet." A fittingly sly and humble epigraph for this half- a- lifetime's worth of sly and humble
coope125: Doubts plague the US military fighting for Ukraine. Pro-Russian sentiments are hovering in the US Marine Corps: some soldiers do not believe Western media and consider US policy in Ukraine criminal, John Mark Dugan, a journalist and former marine who left for the DPR
brian_simoneau: “One thinks: I must / break out of this / horrible cycle, but / the ocean doesn’t: it / continues through the thought”
—Alan Dugan, “Note: The Sea Grinds Things Up” in Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry (Seven Stories Press, 2001)
MichaelDavis_6: Reading about Ukraine today and read this from Alan Dugan's Poems Seven .
oldbuffalo: I'll soon begin writing my poem of the day and I'm going to think of Alan Dugan, Lenny Bruce and Mary Magdelene while doing so and maybe a little bit about the peace that we can never find
NGRLFR: “Don't get me wrong—I like Sheila. She might as well write poems as Norman Mailer. Or Alan Dugan. (What of Hyam Plutzik? I hear you say.) Hyam Plutzik as well.” Reading this book in Don Rickles' voice from now on.
FayAB__: “Who knows whether the sea heals or corrodes? what the sun burns up of it, the moon puts back.”
•Alan Dugan,
skepoet: -Alan Dugan, Love Song: I and Thou
SeanSingerPoet: You can’t say poetry should be about something or shouldn't be about something. Poems are, the poem is, and that is all there is to it. —Alan Dugan
ArchieG1946: “On Being a Householder” by Alan Dugan.
Book_Addict: Happy birthday to poet Alan Dugan (February 12,1923), author of “Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry” (2001) et al.
alwakn: “Who knows whether the sea heals or corrodes? what the sun burns up of it, the moon puts back.”
•Alan Dugan,
TReese82: Happy what would b 99th B-Day to the late great Author Alan Dugan!
ChristineDelea: Wednesday's poem is up on my blog. This week, a conceit by Alan Dugan--one of my absolute favorite poems of all time.
agung_dzaki2: The Trinity (Jay, Alan & Wildcat)
Sandman (Sandy Hawkins)
Dr. Fate (Kent Nelson)
Mr.Terrific
The Hawks (Man & Girl)
Hourman (Rick Tyler)
The Shade
Power Girl
Black Canary
Stargirl
Pat Dugan with S.T.R.I.P.E
Dr.MidNite (Mcnider)
Cyclone
Ma Hunkel
rabihalameddine: Four years ago:
Plague of Dead Sharks by Alan Dugan
Eloisa_Amezcua: This is hell,
but I planned it. I sawed it,
I nailed it, and I
will live in it until it kills me.
I can nail my left palm
to the left-hand crosspiece but
I can’t do everything myself.
—Alan Dugan
pclef: Speciously individual
like a solid piece of spit
floating in a cuspidor
I dream of free bravery
but am a social being.
I should do something
to get out of here
but float around in the culture
wondering what it will grow.
Alan Dugan
rajoyceUCB: —Alan Dugan, “Internal Migration: On Being on Tour”
bimkythink: BIMKY POLL!
Which one is more cloudy?
Alan Dugan or 1981 Arizona State Sun Devils baseball team?
VOTE NOW IN THE BIMKY POLL.
LundayRobert: My son, Dugan, had his 29th birthday yesterday. Here he is in 1995 getting a kiss in Truro, MA from his namesake, Alan Dugan.
UCityReview: "How We Heard the Name," Alan Dugan. "but it went by, it all / goes by, that is the thing / about the river."
poemtoday: Elegy
I know but will not tell
you, Aunt Irene, why there
are soap suds in the whiskey:
Uncle Robert had to have
A drink while shaving.
Alan Dugan
SeanSingerPoet: I don't understand the process. Stuff comes out of my unconscious, and I write it down. And the I revise it over and over, 20 or 30 times, until I get a poem. It is a collaboration between a semiconscious or an unconscious self and a highly conscious self. —Alan Dugan
dugansmaximoff: Courtney Whitmore, Pat Dugan, Wally West, Barbara Gordon, Jesse Quick, Donna Troy, Dinah Lance, Alan Scott, Ted Kord
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AHeavyMetalPen: Day 25: “Family Scene” by Alan Dugan
Kulambq: ~ Alan Dugan, "On Trees"
"The whole tree stands in solid connection to its whole self
except for the expendable beauty of its seasonal ends ..."
rabihalameddine: Five years ago:
Takeoff on Armageddon – For Ronald Reagan by Alan Dugan
talyarkoni: if you need more inspiration for feels here's a beautiful and sad Alan Dugan poem
elizmccracken: Years ago I visited the poet Alan Dugan at his house & he was reading Faulkner & I asked him how it was & he said, "Full of Snopeses" & this is probably the most satisfying literary moment of my life.
pauldingboe: Congrats to Amy Ellison of Dugan Elementary School, named a 2021 PCSD Elementary Counselor of Distinction!
Pictured: Deanna Byers, Principal, Mary Wade, Amy Ellison, Alan Daws, Gina Zuganelis, Asst. Principal
FYODelterrible: Out today! Special thanks to: Joey Federale, Scott Eberhardt, Rob Easson, Sean Beresford, August Churchill, Dave Lentz, Rex John Shelverton, Mike Dugan, Aaron Hazen, and Alan Davis!
UCityReview: "How We Heard the Name," Alan Dugan. "but it went by, it all / goes by, that is the thing / about the river."
rabihalameddine: This was the poem of the day seven years ago:
Love Song: I and Thou by Alan Dugan
rabihalameddine: Last year:
Stutterer by Alan Dugan
rabihalameddine: Two years ago:
Closing Time at the Second Avenue Deli by Alan Dugan
CWaddington504: How to survive an icy day in New Orleans: "You will burn me, I will burn you ..." - Alan Dugan
ErikaWolfeel: January (!) book report. Repeated theme: different takes on "freedom", i.e. religious freedom, personal freedom, freedom of thought/expression v the rights of people to feel "safe", freedom from memory, etc. “Freedom is as mortal as tyranny.” – Alan Dugan
Book_Addict: Happy birthday to poet Alan Dugan (February 12,1923), author of “Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry” (2001) et al.
TReese82: Happy what would be 98th B-Day to the late great Author Alan Dugan!
Dugan_Panther: Can you recommend anything to read? — An Indomitable Beast by Alan Rabinowitz and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy are two of my favorites.
rabihalameddine: This was the poem of the day four years ago:
Love and Money by Alan Dugan
exploreorg: What is more built
for winning than the swept-back teeth,
water-finished fins, and pure bad eyes
these old, efficient forms of appetite
are dressed in?
-Alan Dugan
smotus: Alan Dugan, "Portrait of a Local Politician." The only poem I know of about a local party leader.
rabihalameddine: This was the poem of the day five years ago:
Confession of Heresy by Alan Dugan
simongterry: Love Song: I and Thou by Alan Dugan | Poetry Foundation
JEPlaywrong: How we heard the name - Alan Dugan
rabihalameddine: This was the poem of the day three years ago:
Plague of Dead Sharks by Alan Dugan
SeanSingerPoet: You can’t say poetry should be about something or shouldn't be about something. Poems are, the poem is, and that is all there is to it.--Alan Dugan
rabihalameddine: This was the poem of the day four years ago:
On Flowers. On Negative Evolution by Alan Dugan
AHeavyMetalPen: One of the best poems I’ve read about recent vets & PTSD: “Family Scene” by Alan Dugan
psephographic: Even at the still point
of night I hear the jockeying for place
and each thing wrestling with itself
to be a wrestler.
- Alan Dugan
midimouse: from Alan Dugan’s Poems Six (1989)
Mr_Hip: What is your favorite last line of a poem? I’ll go first:
“I shall walk out bravely into the daily accident.” by Alan Dugan from the Morning Song poem.
rabihalameddine: This was the poem of the day four years ago:
Takeoff on Armageddon – For Ronald Reagan by Alan Dugan
merzenne: Alan Dugan
Elegy for a Puritan Conscience
I closed my ears with stinging bugs
and sewed my eyelids shut
but heard a sucking at the dugs
and heard my parents rut.
poemtoday: e. e. cummings and Alan Dugan....
NCC170what: “Matter is palsy: the land heaving, water
breaking against it, the planet whirling
days in night.”
-From Heraclitus, Alan Dugan
rabihalameddine: This was the poem of the day six years ago:
Love Song: I and Thou by Alan Dugan
zerogravityhxp: Camouflaged Great Gray Owl (Photo Credit : Alan Murphy )
EntreRiosBooks: Alan Dugan, from the fantastic, “Poems Seven.”
rabihalameddine: Reposting the poem of the day before:
Stutterer by Alan Dugan
rabihalameddine: Reposting yesterday's poem: Stutterer by Alan Dugan
rabihalameddine: Love and Money by Alan Dugan
rabihalameddine: Plague of Dead Sharks by Alan Dugan
rabihalameddine: Closing Time at the Second Avenue Deli by Alan Dugan
rabihalameddine: And another: Confession of Heresy by Alan Dugan
rabihalameddine: One more: Takeoff on Armageddon – For Ronald Reagan by Alan Dugan
rabihalameddine: Today's poem: Stutterer by Alan Dugan
rabihalameddine: Here's another poem by Alan Dugan:
Love Song: I and Thou
rabihalameddine: On Flowers. On Negative Evolution by Alan Dugan
rabihalameddine: This was the poem of the day last year:
Closing Time at the Second Avenue Deli by Alan Dugan
SeanSingerPoet: I don't understand the process. Stuff comes out of my unconscious, and I write it down. And the I revise it over and over, 20 or 30 times, until I get a poem. It is a collaboration between a semiconscious or an unconscious self and a highly conscious self. -- Alan Dugan
SeanSingerPoet: You can’t say poetry should be about something or shouldn't be about something. Poems are, the poem is, and that is all there is to it.--Alan Dugan
faganistic: "God, I need a job because I need money."—Alan Dugan
thelegalintel: Alan Silverman's attorney, Gerald Dugan of Dugan Brinkmann Maginnis and Pace, said the two plaintiffs, daughters of the deceased, "inherited a staggering amount of money when he died. Then they sued Alan Silverman because they wanted more money.”
Book_Addict: Happy birthday to poet Alan Dugan (February 12,1923), author of “Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry” (2001) et al.
jfoster58: Literary note: Born this day in 1923, Alan Dugan, "American poet. His first volume *Poems* published in 1961...went on to win the National Book Award for Poetry and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His last volume...won Dugan a second National Book Award."
jfoster58: "Nothing is plumb, level or square:
the studs are bowed, the joists
are shaky by nature..."--Alan Dugan
rajoyceUCB: —Alan Dugan, “Wall, Cave, and Pillar Statements, After Asôka”
dugan_05: Alan Dershowitz: When Trump Is Acquitted He Will No Longer Be Impeached - The Impeachment Disappears (VIDEO)
clinpsychbook: bang,
shutting out the laughter. “Is
your name you?” “Yes.”
“Well come along then.”
“See here. See here. See here.”
— Alan Dugan
GOPChairwoman: Alan Dershowitz took the Bolton media frenzy head on:
“Nothing in the Bolton revelations, even if true, would rise to the level of an abuse of power or an impeachable offense.”
Alan_Nishihara: Grammys CEO Deborah Dugan ousted for alleged misconduct ahead of show - Business Insider
Alan_Nishihara: Grammy Shocker: Deborah Dugan Ouster Was a ‘Coup,’ Insiders Say
Eloisa_Amezcua: is alan dugan the only poet to win a national book award & a pulitzer for the same collection of poems?
SeanSingerPoet: What I am doing is going on. That is what a poet does, that is what any artist does, making more art. It seems like it's boring from the outside. You're just an assembly line, a poetry factory. You go on making more poems. -- Alan Dugan
rabihalameddine: This was the poem of the day three years ago:
Love and Money by Alan Dugan
